= Political Parties of Japan =

Japan is generally classified as a single-party democracy. Despite free and fair elections, a wide variety of parties, and iterative electoral reforms, the [[Japan/LiberalDemocraticParty|LDP]] has held power for all but 4 years since 1955.



== Active ==

 * [[Japan/ConstitutionalDemocraticParty|Constitutional Democratic Party]]
 * [[Japan/DemocraticPartyForThePeople|Democratic Party for the People]]
 * [[Japan/JapanInnovationParty2016|Japan Innovation Party (2016)]]
 * [[Japan/Komeito|Komeito]]
 * [[Japan/LiberalDemocraticParty|Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)]]
 * [[Japan/SocialDemocraticParty|Social Democratic Party (SDP)]]



== Defunct ==

 * New Conservative Party
 * [[Japan/DemocraticParty2016|Democratic Party (2016)]]
 * [[Japan/DemocraticPartyOfJapan|Democratic Party of Japan]]
 * Democratic Socialist Party
 * From Five Party
 * Good Governance Party
 * [[Japan/JapanInnovationParty2014|Japan Innovation Party (2014)]]
 * Japan New Party
 * [[Japan/JapanSocialistParty|Japan Socialist Party]] (direct predecessor to the SDP)
 * Kibou no Tou
 * Liberal Party (1945)
 * [[Japan/LiberalParty1998|Liberal Party (1988)]]
 * Liberal Party (2016)
 * [[Japan/NewFrontierParty|New Frontier Party]]
 * [[Japan/NewPartySakigake|New Party Sakigake]]
 * Sun Party



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